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Market day, and more people are queuing to buy lottery tickets at the Café du Centre than freshly dug carrots and spinach at the farm stall. 'People here watch their [...]

Grad-Student Organizing Is Gaining Steam MORE GRADUATE STUDENTS are organizing to push for better wages and benefits--and it's working. In 2022, some colleges agreed to big pay raises in contract [...]

IT TAKES REAL skill to pick the right fight in politics. Doing so is a high-risk enterprise, since many spats descend into bombast or bitterness that blackens the names of [...]

BEN WALLACE is the great survivor of the most tumultuous recent period in British politics. He has held ministerial office, uninterrupted, from the premierships of David Cameron to Rishi Sunak. [...]

Few political transformations are as dramatic as that of Tae Yong Ho. Until his defection in 2016, he was North Korea's deputy ambassador in London. A video circulating online shows [...]

PSEPHOLOGY these days resembles a trip to an old-fashioned anthropological museum, stuffed with the relics of mysterious tribes that have constituted the British electorate. In one glass case, we find [...]

Pierre Poilievre is Canada's answer to Donald Trump O N A SUNDAY in April 600 people packed into the Elks Lodge on the outskirts of North Bay in northern Ontario. [...]

THE BELLOWING HONKS of freedom nearly drowned out Pierre Poilievre's voice as he stood on a frigid overpass in late January, cheering the truck convoy on its way to lay [...]

Steam, which is largely insubstantial, rises. The same goes for soap suds, methane bubbles and numerous politicians. We naively consider 21st-century Britain a meritocracy, yet serial failures still float to [...]

Boris Johnson needs to shake off the Brexit elite's triumphalist, paranoid mindset SOME POLITICAL dramas flare up briefly; others redraw the political landscape. The debacle in the House of Commons [...]

In Kishida Fumio, Japan's old guard opts for the status quo KISHIDA FUMIO, Japan's new prime minister-in-waiting, likes to jot down voters' views in little notebooks. After being elected president [...]

And don't call me Joseph Tamil Nadu's leader offers something India's does not: competence IT WAS DANGEROUS in the Soviet Union to accept a seat in Joseph Stalin's inner circle. [...]

A demagogue is on the rise KHADIJA, LIKE many Tunisians, thinks life was better before the revolution that toppled Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, a dictator, in 2011. For sure, [...]

More women have top jobs, but many have no job at all ENRICO LETTA, a former prime minister who returned from the political wilderness to lead Italy's centre-left Democratic Party [...]

Germany's conservatives are fumbling the succession of Angela Merkel 'MY PLACE is in Bavaria.' When asked if he hoped to succeed Angela Merkel, who will step down as Germany's chancellor [...]

Liz Truss's popularity says a lot about today's Tory party LIZ TRUSS's fellow MPs tend to treat her as a bit of a joke. A dull speaker in a profession [...]

'You could be th e nex t Ed Balls.' That's w hat I told a d oe-eyed Bank of England official called Matthew Hancock when I was introduced to him [...]

The December issue of the German magazine Compact is still on the shelves in some shops here in Berlin. From its cover gazes out the politician Sahra Wagenknecht in a [...]

The Tories are world-beaters when it comes to nicking ideas THE LIST of great prime ministers Britain never had includes Joseph Chamberlain, Rab Butler and Michael Heseltine. It does not [...]

No good options for Venezuela's divided opposition EVEN BY RECENT abysmal standards, this has been a bad year for Venezuelans. Covid-19 has struck a country whose health system collapsed long [...]

With its Liberal bandwagon and organized strategic voting, this was an election like few others. Among other things it gave the Liberals the first-past the-post winner's bonus, which brought them [...]

The last farewell My mother-in-law died very suddenly of a heart attack a month ago. As I stood up to read her eulogy I realised that it is much harder [...]

The ecb is Europe's most powerful institution. Erkki Liikanen should be its next boss ONE OF THE biggest jobs in Europe is up for grabs: head of the European Central [...]

Byline: Will Bredderman ALESSANDRA BIAGGI, 32 Senator, New York state Legislature If 2018 was indeed the Year of the Woman, few politicians in New York embodied that more than state [...]

Marine Le Pen's niece takes her crusade to protect Catholic France into the classroom THE REVAMPED Confluence neighbourhood of Lyon is a laboratory for modern eco-living. A self-driving electric bus [...]

Byline: Photographs by MARTIN SCHOELLER Text by CLAIRE LANDSBAUM CHANGING OF THE GUARD As the most diverse class of freshman lawmakers in history settles in, Washington is preparing for war. [...]

Byline: Rajen Harshe Revisiting humanist perspectives on the idea of India: Gandhi, Nehru and Tagore Some of the developments in India during the past four years, such as lynchings, growing [...]